🐘: gamedesignerben@xoxo.zone 🟦: gamedesignerben@bsky.social

Joined April 2007
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Sheer Terror vs. Boundless Enthusiasm
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It is frankly wild how easy it is to sign a contract that makes you legally liable for providing exponential growth forever, and that this is something nobody talks about.
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Lotta folks who got into modular synths during the pandemic throwing stones right now.
9 Jun 2023
Photos released showing boxes with classified information at Trump's home
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East Coast friends, if you want to learn how to build an air filtration box out of a standard 20” Lasko fan, some MERV filters, and a roll of duct tape, here’s how you do that. cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-fil…

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I dunno, I found a trans mutual aid fund and set up a recurring donation.
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Twitter died as it lived, as a website for people whose main interest is posting on Twitter.
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You gotta wonder how many people in that paid-to-see-a-transphobe crowd had a friend who Musk personally fired. Or who have a social media-related job he made more stressful. Or were nearly hit by one of the self-driving cars he bullied onto their streets.
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Getting booed by a few thousand people is gonna sting, but most comedians who bomb don’t go Online and say, β€œWhat we need is some sort of a… Final Solution”
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What if, instead of deleting my Twitter account, I block everyone else’s?
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BREAKING: Nurses in Minnesota have launched the largest private-sector nurses strike in U.S. history. 15,000 nurses at 16 hospitals walked out on a 3-day strike. They’re fighting for higher staffing levels and wage increases.
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I did not realize that 1) America's Army, the recruitment videogame, was still running in 2022, and 2) It finally went offline in May (because the military is using e-sports and streaming to recruit gamers now) fastcompany.com/90720653/aft…

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β€œOur pay is not complete without the ongoing residuals. Those residuals aren’t paid directly to the artists, they actually go to our union to pay for our healthcare. So not paying artists residuals on their work means they are indirectly defunding our healthcare.”
20 Aug 2022
A well-written and (most importantly) rational explanation of the HBO Max situation by Infinity Train creator Owen Dennis, including an intriguing analysis from a creator’s point of view on whether this is the rare occasion piracy is justifiable. owendennis.substack.com/p/so…
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